Following upon the repurchase of the White Star Line by
the Royal Mail Company another American organization,- which was once owried here, has been bought back.. The Pacific Cable Board (British) owns the cables from Australia to Canada and also administers a system of cables and wireless in the West Indies. This system connects with the Direct West India Cable Company, which has a cable to HalifaX via Bermuda. Some years ago the controlling interest in the Direct West India Company was acquired by the Commercial Cable Company of New York. Hence a curious anomaly. The Direct West India Cable Company had contracted under a Government subsidy to supply the British West Indies with a news service supplied free to the Press. When the Commercial Cable Company took over the control British news under a British subsidy was supplied from an American source. This anomaly has just been happily ended by Sir Campbell Stuart, who on behalf of the West India Department of the Pacific Cable Board has bought out the Commercial Cable Company.
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